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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Comscore Study: Social Gamers Want Marketing Offers For Currency  —  A new study by Comscore will be released on Wednesday that may give hope to social gaming startups trying to monetize users.  35% of the survey respondents said that they engage in “marketing actions” to earn virtual currency …

Jie Shao / Google LatLong:
Edit places using Street View images  —  Last week we announced that you can edit details about a business listing directly through the Place Page.  But sometimes you may find a place in Google Maps that isn't quite positioned where it should be.  Let's say you know that your favorite pizzeria …

Ben Hardwidge / THINQ.co.uk:
AMD - Game devs only use PhysX for the cash  —  Apart from Epic, that is...  Facebook  —  Print Favourite Zoom Out Font Zoom In Font  —  As AMD announced the next step of its Open Physics Initiative today, the company also hit out at Nvidia's PhysX technology, saying that most game developers only use it for the money.

Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
Phonebooth Launches Free Google Voice Alternative for Startups and Small Businesses  —  Phonebooth.com, a VOIP service for individuals and small businesses, just launched a free version of its service.  Phonebooth, just like Google Voice and Ribbit Mobile, provides its users …

Tom Krazit / Relevant Results:
Google Maps to add bike maps, directions  —  Google Maps is set to provide a new option for getting around town: biking directions.  —  The company plans to unveil what it called “the most requested addition to Google Maps” during the National Bike Summit in Washington …

Adam Ostrow / Mashable!:
Retweet.com Sells for $250,000  —  Retweet.com, which put itself up for sale last month, has sold for $250,000 in an online auction on Flippa.  The auction saw a fair amount of interest with 45 bids in total, but it appears that the winning party came in with a “buy it now” …

Don Reisinger / Crave: The gadget blog:
Analyst: PlayStation 3 to win console war in the end  —  Even though Sony's PlayStation 3 is far behind both the Nintendo Wii and Xbox 360 in console sales, analysts at Strategy Analytics contend that when all is said and done, Sony will sell more consoles than its competitors.

Matthew Futterman / Wall Street Journal:
Verizon Will Carry NFL's RedZone  —  The National Football League and Verizon Wireless struck a deal to distribute live games and the league's wildly popular RedZone Channel beginning next season.  —  The four-year deal between the country's most powerful sports league and the largest U.S. wireless operator …

Chris Vander Mey / The Official Google Blog:
Open for business: the Google Apps Marketplace  —  Every day, thousands of businesses choose the cloud.  More than 2 million businesses have adopted Google Apps over the last three years, eliminating the hassles associated with purchasing, installing and maintaining hardware and software themselves.

Scott McMullan / Google Enterprise Blog:
More great apps for Google Apps  —  This evening, we were joined by more than 50 participating companies to announce the launch of the Google Apps Marketplace, a new online storefront that enables millions of Google Apps administrators to discover and purchase integrated third party cloud applications and deploy them to their domains.

Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
MetaLab Accuses Mozilla Of Plagiarizing Its Design (Updated)  —  Andrew Wilkinson of MetaLab has just written a blog post accusing Mozilla of plagiarizing the design of its FlightDeck editor.  To make matters worse, Wilkinson says that MetaLab actually bid on creating the design for FlightDeck months ago …

Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Without Colbert, Stewart, Hulu Could Cede Some Ground To Viacom  —  Barring a last-minute fix or change of strategy, at midnight Tuesday Hulu.com will switch from a co-host for online video of the Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report to a referral engine for the popular shows.

Ben Parr / Mashable!:
Google Launches the Google Apps Marketplace  —  Today at the Google's Campfire One event at the company's headquarters in Mountain View, California, the Internet search giant is launching its new app store for business, known as the Google Apps Marketplace.  —  Last week, we broke the story of today's Google Apps Marketplace launch.

Scott M. Fulton, III / BetaNews:
Almost #3 now: Dell's decline is Acer's gain  —  With the economic sinkhole of 2008-09 now a figment of many technology companies' past, most PC manufacturers are back on their regularly scheduled growth curve.  Last month, Dell had indicated to investors that it was returning to that curve as well …

Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Twitter Starts Routing All Links Through New Anti-Phishing Service  —  Twitter has just announced that it is launching a new anti-phishing feature that allows Twitter's Trust and Safety team to monitor all links submitted through the service for potentially malicious attacks.

Douglas MacMillan / Business Week:
Web-Connected TV: A Distant Dream for App Makers  —  Developers who delight in creating software for smartphones say there's little incentive to build apps for TVs, which need too many approvals  —  Last year, Mark Phillip unveiled Are You Watching This?!, a tool for mobile phones …

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google Buzz Could Have Dominated Location.  (And Snuck Up On Facebook And Twitter.)  —  Tomorrow it will be exactly one month since the launch of Google Buzz.  The song remains the same: it's a mess.  Normally, that wouldn't bother me so much — after all, a lot of services are a mess — but Buzz has a lot of potential.

Stan Schroeder / Mashable!:
Tumblr Hits Major Milestones, Plans to Start Generating Revenue  —  Tumblr, one of the simplest blogging platforms around, is doing really well.  Situated between WordPress, which requires a bit more effort to create and organize content, and Twitter, which requires almost no effort …

Karen Gullo / Bloomberg:
Hewlett-Packard Sues MicroJet Alleging Patent Infringement Over Cartridges  —  Hewlett-Packard Co. sued MicroJet Technology Co., a Taiwanese maker of printer ink cartridges, and three other companies alleging their products infringe its patents.  —  The companies' HP-compatible color ink …

Damon Kiesow / Poynter Online:
New York Times to spin off Book Review for e-readers  —  The New York Times is planning to offer its Book Review as a separate digital e-reader product, disaggregated from the rest of the Times content on the mobile devices, according to James Dunn, director of marketing for The New York Times.